Some Goals

I am sitting here working on a list of goals for a family planning meeting with Mg. I am coming up totally empty. Well not totally... I have-feel better-written down. And really that's what I want... I want to feel better. I have felt tired and haggard for 3 years now and I am ready to feel better. Thyroid disease is a huge part of the problem but there is also my consistently poor attitude and some lingering sadness as well.

I know there are ways to deal with all of it and I plan on doing those this year. As well as trying really hard to love my family in a new and refreshed way. I have been slacking on the loving again. Falling into the old pit of selfishness and laziness that accompanies bad attitudes and the sadness lurking at my door.

So that's it: Feel better. Love the people who God has given to me.

Looks short on paper but I can see the outline starting to trail off of these two things. I know the amount of work my heart needs and how hard it will be to surrender the junk in there...Doing these things is not really something that will be "accomplished" this year-tho I hope for great progress-but something that will be worked on over the entirety of my life. I know I have a long road ahead of me and that I will have to work at it. but I want to enjoy the work...and I'm smiling thinking about how much grace I'm going to need...

Owen 5yrs and climbing

"Everyone to whom God has given wealth, and possessions, and the power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil-this is the gift of God. For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with the joy in his heart." (Eccl. 5:19)

Last years list update

Last year around this time I made this list.
I did pretty well at checking things off of it too...I kept a running list on the side of the blog all year and hear it is

2010 List update

• ~Live with intention
• ~Print and frame new photos of Owen and family
• ~Make a Photo book
• ~Keep a food journal
• ~Make my basement work for me!!
• ~Make my own kefir...not the same as store bought...not a fan
• ~Do an educational activity with Owen everyday
• ~Make breakfast for my family
• ~Freeze things (six whole meals, jam and salsa made up and frozen)
• ~Found a good babysitter
• ~Live without refined sugar (ok so most of the time)
• ~Run for 3 miles with out stopping to walk!
• ~Take more pictures
• ~Read three books a month(didn't quite make this one but really close)
  
• ~Frame some of Owens art
• ~Make hospitality a priority
• ~Go on at least 2 dates per month With M.G
• ~Try and report new recipes
• ~Ask God to do the impossible
• ~Post at least 2 blogs per week
• ~Buy an upright freezer
• ~Learn to make bread in the bread machine
• ~Look to the word of God and my Husband first for counsel...Hardest but most rewarding.
  

This year I am not going to make a big list...I may or may not try and finish the things I didn't do last year.. I think the biggest thing I learned from compiling and trying to complete last years list was-that most of the things that truly mattered-were centered around serving others freely and loving my family with a passion that does not yield. I do want to continue to do those things all of my life.
I will make a short list later this week...because I do love a good list and even if its just for me I feel accountable when I write it down somewhere.